He Made A Robot And A Combination Lock | Benjamin Cornelius | Episode 1090
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Cornelius is a 23 year old amateur ceramicist based in Louisville, Kentucky. Benjamin started working with clay two years ago and became obsessed with the idea of building fully articulating sculptures. Benjamin's work so far has been very iterative, implementing simple mechanisms to establish fundamentals for his process.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's cast. |
| 0:01.9 | Hey! |
| 0:02.6 | This is the podcast home of the Potter's Mastermind, a community of Potters dedicated to grow their |
| 0:07.8 | business. |
| 0:08.7 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.4 | Episode number 190 of the Potter's cast, welcome to the show. |
| 0:20.5 | We've got a really cool dude coming on the show today. |
| 0:24.8 | I love when people take something that should not be used in this way, but they go ahead and do it anyhow. |
| 0:32.6 | I love it. |
| 0:33.7 | Well, that's what our guests today, Benjamin Cornelius did. |
| 0:37.4 | He created, well, the title of today's show, if you haven't guest today, Benjamin Cornelius, did. |
| 0:45.4 | He created, well, the title of today's show, if you haven't seen it, it says he made a robot and a combination lock. |
| 0:52.2 | Now, that's the crazy thing about this dude's work is that he makes things that should not be made out of clay. |
| 0:59.6 | And so, like this crazy, cool combination lock that he made out of clay. And so, like this crazy cool combination lock that he made out of ceramics that is actually functioning. |
| 1:00.6 | I mean, you use a combination to open up the pottery. |
| 1:05.3 | It's crazy cool. |
| 1:06.8 | And so we talk about this whole journey that he has going into ceramics and, yeah, it's pretty |
| 1:13.9 | awesome. |
| 1:14.8 | So let's jump into this conversation that I have with Benjamin Cornelius right after this word |
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